what about: fuego brings digital surveillance to the stage at WERKRAUM Göttingen


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When the past looks into the digital now
The international collective what about: fuego will perform on October 8, 2026, at WERKRAUM Göttingen with the multimedia performance they watch over you. The evening combines theater, performance, light, interactive design, and cyberfeminist sounds into an intense exploration of state surveillance and digital data economies.
Memories become present
On stage, the experiences of deceased grandmothers meet the surveillance reality of the present. Their stories lead from historical control systems to a world where personal data, emotions, wishes, and bodies become economic resources. what about: fuego looks back to better understand current technologies and their political consequences.
Cyberfeminist sounds and precise stage performance
The performance works with a dense connection of language, movement, projections, and electronic sound. The duo ultramorbidi provides cyberfeminist soundscapes, while interactive design and light condense the atmosphere between surveillance, memory, and resistance. Orchestration, synchronization, and stage performance interlink to make digital control physically tangible.
Between data capitalism and resistance
they watch over you asks how corporations profit from digital traces and influence behavior. The three performers explore not only the power of technological systems but also test strategies to reclaim technologies. From the perspective of different generations, a theater evening emerges about privacy, patriarchal structures, political control, and the quest for agency.
An evening at WERKRAUM Göttingen
The performance will take place on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 7:30 PM at WERKRAUM located at Stresemannstraße 24c. Admission is based on a solidarity contribution with freely selectable price categories of 8, 12, or 16 euros. Students of the University of Göttingen can get tickets for 5 euros at the box office upon presenting the culture ticket.
The audience can expect not an ordinary concert and not a classic play, but a concentrated concert experience between sound art, contemporary theater, and political performance. Those who want to not only discuss digital surveillance but experience it sensually and immediately should discover this evening live at WERKRAUM.
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